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Why the IFS Institute™ probably won’t budge

Many colleagues are hoping that, with enough persuasion, the leaders of the IFS Institute will realize the error of their hard pivot toward clinical mental healthcare. But the training I got from the IFS Institute makes me skeptical.

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A role-playing game for IFS practitioners

In this private online consulting group for IFS practitioners, we’ll use the conventions of role-playing games to explore our systems and practices. (This page is just for invited participants, so please don’t share it.)

The Joys of Being Yourselves

The Joys of Being Yourselves

My inner family and I spent last Saturday afternoon hanging out with hundreds of diverse conceptual people and their human-bodied spokesbeings. The joy I felt in that community inspired today’s newsletter: fun with grammar, including 3 easy ways you can give plural pronouns a try.

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Join me in a Year of Living Plurally

In 2024, some friends and I are trying an experiment in bucking American individualism: a “Year of Living Plurally.” Every week or so, I’m going to share some reflections about how multiplicity, diversity, and community show up in our daily lives and the culture around us. Want to come along?

Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out

Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out

The Internal Family Systems model can bring deeper understanding, more compassionate communication, and greater harmony to bigger human systems — like nonprofits and the communities they serve. This workshop uses IFS to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion “from the inside out.”

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Fall 2023 Inner Community Writing Workshops

The first-ever Inner Community Writing Workshops are meeting in November and December of 2023. Here’s what participants need to know.

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An 8-week Intro to IFS Self-Therapy in Minneapolis, starting this month

Spread the word, Minneapolis: on Wednesday evenings this fall, experienced therapist and teacher Roberta Cullen is teaching an 8-week in-person Intro to IFS Self-Therapy. It’s open to anyone 18 or older, and offered very affordably through Minneapolis Community Education.